All 4 Uses of
conflict
in
The Lost Hero
- But those myths are really garbled and conflicted.†
Chpt 25 *conflicted = tension from opposing ideas or feelings
- The point being, I was thrown in the middle of that conflict, too!†
Chpt 38conflict = struggle or disagreement
- The two conflicts—mortal and demigod—mirrored each other, as they usually do in Western history.†
Chpt 53conflicts = struggles or disagreements
- For American mortals, it is still their bloodiest conflict of all time—worse than their casualties in the two World Wars.†
Chpt 53conflict = struggle or disagreement
Definition:
a struggle or disagreement
in various senses, including:
- a serious disagreement -- as in "political conflict"
- the tension from two opposing ideas or feelings -- as in "I'm conflicted about where I should go to college."
- a violent fight or war -- as in "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
- an idiom that refers to tension between responsibilities to different entities -- "conflict of interest"